Sometimes our political system just drives you crazy. Those of us who want to get something done on climate change, whether mitigation or adaptation, struggle to see how anything can get through. We want to do something, but we're constrained by the system we're in.
There's a temptation to say that we should just focus on adaptation, because mitigation is going to be too hard to get through. But, then something like this comes along and it kills your will on getting anything done. Even climate observation - not even climate adaptation - gets killed.
House Republicans just killed a budget neutral proposal to institute a climate service at NOAA. It was pure adaptation - and it didn't pass. Despair.
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